Cocaine Blues (Luke Jordan)
From the recording by David Bromberg
Album: My Own House
Web site: http://www.davidbromberg.net
Thanks to E. Hartman.
Intro:
EADGGBCCGEADGE7A7
I said come here mama don't you take me for no fool
D7G
I wouldn't quit you woman while the weather's cool
GB7CC#dim
Around your back door, honey, I will make my creep
GE7A7D7G
Just as long as you earn your two and half a week
E7A7
Now I got a gal she works in a rich folks' yard
D7G
She brings me meals, she brings me lard
GB7CC#dim
She brings me meals, she brings me lard
GE7A7D7G
She brings me everything that she can steal
Chorus 1:
E7A7
I call my Cora hey hey
D7G
Along comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more
E7A7
I said run here doctor, ringin' the bell there's women in the alley
GE7A7D7G
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine.
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/david_bromberg/cocaine_blues_crd.html )
E7A7
You know the furniture man come to my door last Sunday morn'
D7G
He asked me was my wife at home, I said no she's been long gone.
E7A7
And then he backed his truck right up to my door and he took everything I had
GE7A7D7G
And carted on back to the furniture store I declare I did feel sad.
E7A7
What in the world has anybody got to do with a furniture man?
D7G
If you got no dough to put up a show he'll take everything he can.
E7A7
He'll take everything from ugly plant, a skillet to a frying pan,
GE7A7D7G
If there ever was a devil without any horns, it must've been a furniture man
Chorus 2:
E7A7
I call my Cora hey yeah
D7G
Along comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more
E7A7
He says cocaine's for horses, it's not for men, he says it's gonna kill me but he don't say when
GE7A7D7G
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine.
GBCCGEADG
Notes:
The opening is an eighth-note walk G-F#-F-E on the low E string, into the E7 chord.
It's played with an alternating bass, but only two bass notes per measure.
The G turnaround is played like:
E-3-------------3
B-0-3-2-1-0-----0
G-0-4-3-2-0-----0
D-0-------------0
A-2---------2----
E-3-----------3--